POPULAR CULTURE

ASSIGNMENT 2-1 CULTURE AND SOCIETY: INTERACTIONS

BY: Earl Dean

1945 - 1960Historical events in the U.S.

Literature in the U.S.ScienceMovies

Video games

Historic Events

F.D.R. dies 12 Apr ‘45

Germany is dividedsetting the stage for the cold war

Atomic Bomb is used

on Hiroshima 6 Augand

on Nagasaki 9 Aug 1945

VJ Day 14 Aug 1945

VE Day 8 May 1945

WWII ENDS!!

Gandhi assassinatedin 1948

The UN is established in 1945

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1950 - 1953

1954 U.S. Supreme Court rules against segregated schools.

1954 Dr. Jonas Salk develops

the polio vaccine.

The war was the first armed conflict in the cold war and is not officially over, because it is only in a cease fire.

In 1958 the first "video game” was invented by a physicists

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James Dean dies in a car accident at age 26.

Movies, Games, & Literature

The Lord of the Rings wasWritten in 1954To later become

2 movie animations and a 3-part movie masterpiece

Science

Replica of Sputnik 1–

the birth of the Space Age1957

Stamp showing Sputnik’s orbit

Nuclear energy; a military need for destruction

results in a power source,For both military and civilian

U.S.S. Nautilus becomes first atomic sub in 1954

References

Augenstein, B. (1982) Evolution of the US Military Space Program 1945 – 1960: Some Key Events in Study, Planning, and Program Development. Retrieved 20 February 2010 from http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/2008/P6814.pdf

Cold War 1945 - 1960. (2007). Retrieved 20 February 2010 from http://www.thecorner.org/hist/europe/coldwar.htm

Historical events. (2010). Retrieved 20 February 2010 from http://www.designingwithtype.com/timelines.php?year=1940&id=11

Korean War. (2008). The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Retrieved February 24, 2010 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-KoreanWa.html

Movie Timeline. (2005). Retrieved 20 February 2010 from http://www.infoplease.com/ipea/A0150210.html

Picture of atomic bomb blasts. Retrieved 20 February 2010 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki

Picture of FDR Funeral Train. Retrieved 20 February 2010 from http://trainjotting.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/klara.jpg

Picture of James Dean’s car crash. Retrieved 20 February 2010 from http://cheddarbay.com/0000celebrityfiles/stars/jamesdean/crashscene.jpg

Picture of Korean War map. Retrieved 21 February 2010 from http://nhs.needham.k12.ma.us/cur/WWII/06/p2/TD/images/korean_war_map.jpg

References

Picture of the Lord of the Rings book. Retrieved 21 February 2010 from http://img-nex.theonering.net/images/scrapbook/6781.jpg

Picture of News Paper article about segregation. Retrieved 21 February 2010 from http://brownvboard.org/trvlexbt/pnl10/pnl10-1.jpg

Picture of Polio Stamp. Retrieved 21 February 2010 from http://www.biocrawler.com/w/images/9/9b/Stamp-ctc-polio-vaccine.jpg

Picture of Psycho Poster. Retrieved 20 February 2010 from http://www.solarnavigator.net/films_movies_actors/film_images/Psycho_movie_poster_Janet_leigh.jpg

Picture of Robert Bannister. Retrieved 21 February 2010 from http://www.achievement.org/achievers/ban0/large/ban0-020.jpg

Picture of Sputnik. Retrieved 20 February 2010 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_1

Picture of United Nations Logo. Retrieved 21 February 2010 from http://web.clark.edu/mceriello/MUN/un.gif

Picture of USS Nautilus. Retrieved 21 February 2010 from http://www.yccc.org/Meetings/Past/2002SepMeetingGroton/Nautilus.jpg

Video Games: Timeline. (2007). Retrieved 20 February 2010 from http://www.infoplease.com/spot/gamestimeline1.html